Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army and Navy went ahead with plans for a mock "attack" on the Atlantic seaboard by a large "raiding fleet," to be repelled by planes and submarines...
With one hand he would beckon the Dictators to a peace conference table, with the other he would make the largest gesture of "force to force" that he knew how: move the Battle Fleet back into the Pacific where it could offset any Japanese menace to Great Britain, France and The Netherlands in the Orient...
...avoid upsetting the stockmarket, announcement of the Fleet order was withheld until after noon Saturday (see p. 17). But at 10:30 a.m. correspondents covering the State Department were told to go over to the White House offices. Secretary Hull crossed the street ahead of the newshawks. Also seated in the President's office when the press was admitted were UnderSecretary Welles and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. When 25 correspondents had filed in (usually there are more than 100), President Roosevelt asked in surprise: "Where are they all?" The White House had outdone itself...
...Dictators, the President addressed notes at what he thought was the eleventh hour, asking for peace pledges, offering to mediate (see p. 13). U. S. Battle Fleet was ordered out of the Atlantic, back to the Pacific Ocean...
...Brooklyn Navy Yard, where naval mechanics replaced a 16-inch gun which cracked during maneuvers in the Caribbean last month. Beautifully at rest, the U.S.S. Tennessee rode the Hudson, to be admired by Manhattan gawpers. But it was at Hampton Roads, Va. that the greatest majesty of the Fleet was seen. There battleships, cruisers, destroyers, auxiliaries were harbored in mass while their crews roamed the streets and pubs of Norfolk...